Ethics [Thursday, November 9, 6th period]

[sith_happened]

Vader swept into the room and slammed the door behind him as usual.

"Immortality," he intoned, pacing in front of the class, mental walls incredibly strong. On this topic most of all, he had no interest in students poking around in his head. "Many beings have made life-altering choices in order to avoid dying, or to try to avoid someone they love dying. They've broken under torture, they've made pacts with powerful beings, they've sold their souls like a commodity. They've cloned themselves, murdered thousands, created machines to stop the passage of time."

Vader's cape billowed out around him as he turned. "Today's discussion is not about why all sentient and mortal beings seem to fear death. Today, you shall discuss what you would be prepared to give up if it would guarantee that you would live forever."

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Re: What would you do to live forever?

[sith_happened]

Vader nodded, internally boggling that he was agreeing with something Jamie was saying. "So you do not fear death, then," he said.

Re: What would you do to live forever?

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Death? Not so much. Now the actual dying part? That hurts like a sonofabitch," Jamie said with a slight shiver. "So I'll generally try to avoid that unless it's for a good cause. But immortality? I'll leave that to the idiots who are either too stupid or too afraid to handle the shuffling off said mortal coil."

Re: What would you do to live forever?

[sith_happened]

"And what if someone was trying to achieve your sort of immortality--the ability to keep duplicating themselves forever?" Vader asked. "Would you consider them to be...idiots?"

Re: What would you do to live forever?

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"I'm not immortal," Jamie clarified. "I'm just hard to kill. But if you mean like trying to clone yourself? Yeah, they'd be pretty much morons."

Re: What would you do to live forever?

[sith_happened]

Vader had a sudden image of someone telling the Emperor that. "I know beings who would disagree rather strenuously," he replied.

Re: What would you do to live forever?

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie shrugged. "Really? I find that most beings who want to be immortal are usually insane. Especially if they try to do anything to achieve it."

Re: What would you do to live forever?

[sith_happened]

"Oh, he's very, very sane," Vader replied. "He's just...focused." He swept off to terrify a different student.

Re: What would you do to live forever?

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie snorted. "That's what the Germans thought about Hitler."